MUSC 112 - First-Year Theory III

5 CR

Third of a six-course sequence in Music Theory for music majors and students who wish to acquire insight into the building blocks of tonal music. Students learn chromaticism including applied & borrowed chords, modulation, musical texture, arrangement strategies, blues form, popular song forms and simple classical musical structures. Ear training, rhythm reading and sight singing is also included.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 111 and permission of instructor.

Course Outcomes

Recognize and create harmonic progressions that incorporate chromatic chords (applied dominant dominants/leading-tone chords, & borrowed chords.)
Recognize and creatively apply modulation to closely related keys through melody, harmonic progressions, and musical structures.
Recognize and create different musical textures.
Learn several popular music arrangement strategies, as well as arranging for transposing instruments & percussion.
Learn and create original music in 12-bar blues form and its structural expansions.
Analyze complete musical works from various stylistic periods (classical, jazz, & popular music) using formal structure guidelines.
Create original music within the structural concepts acquired over the quarter.
Recognize all diatonic triads & seventh chords by ear and dictate short diatonic chord progressions.
Read syncopated musical notation in rhythmic tapping in simple & compound meters.
Sight sing basic 4-bar diatonic melodic fragments within the student’s vocal range.
Dictate simple diatonic melodic fragments.

GenEd Outcomes: Creative and Critical Thinking

Aesthetic Awareness

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